DNB COURSES

PET CT Scan

State of the Art

PET/CT Scan in North India available at Grecian Super Speciality Hospital

Department of Nuclear Medicine

The Department of Nuclear Medicine at Grecian Super Speciality Hospital offers a comprehensive range of clinical services in radioisotope imaging. Equipped with state-of-the-art equipment like Siemens Biograph Horizon, we are committed to providing high quality clinical service while adhering to the best practices in radiation protection and patient safety. The department boasts of the most advanced Time of Flight PET CT, available only in Grecian Hospital in North India.

Consultant

Dr. Saloni Mehta

MBBS, DNB Nuclear Medicine (PGIMER)

The Department of Nuclear Medicine is headed by Dr. Saloni Mehta who has years of experience in Nuclear Medicine. Under her supervision, the department is able to offers high-quality care to its patients addressing a wide variety of clinical indications along with introducing new efficiencies.

Grecian

Other

Equipment

Siemens Biograph Horizon

Older Models of GE / Siemens

Technology

TOF (Time of Flight)

Non TOF

Radioactive Drug (FDG)

Less ( 50%)

More

Time Needed on Machine

5-10 Mins

15 – 20 Mins

Resolution

5mm

> 5mm

Grecian Super Speciality Hospital is proud to add the most advanced PET/CT Scan in its fleet of services. Bringing high-quality care to more patients, our recent addition Siemens Biograph HorizonTM offers the flexibility to address a wide variety of clinical indications while introducing new efficiencies.

The Finer Points of a High-quality Image

The value of PET/CT in patient care is in the details—more precise information leads to greater potential for an earlier diagnosis and a more definitive treatment strategy.

1. The Crystals

2. The Detector

The smaller the crystals, the sharper the image. Biograph Horizon’s OptisoHD detectors feature LSO crystals cut into 4 mm elements and arranged with no gaps between detector blocks to provide very high spatial resolution and lesion visualization.

3. Time-of-Flight

4. World-Class CT

Siemens’ market-leading CT technologies further enhance the imaging capabilities. They also give us the ability to scan a wider variety of patients. For example, SAFIRE lowers dose by up to 60%, and iMAR reduces metal artifacts.

What is a PET Scan?

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that helps reveal how your tissues and organs are functioning. A PET scan uses a radioactive drug(tracer) to show this activity.

Why It’s Done ?

A PET scan is useful in revealing or evaluating several conditions, including some cancers, heart disease and brain disorders. A PET scan or a combined CT-PET scan enables your doctor to better diagnose your condition.

Cancer

Cancer cells show up as bright spots on PET scans because they have a higher metabolic rate than do normal
cells. PETscans may be useful in:

Detecting cancer

Revealing whether your cancer has spread

Checking whether a cancer treatment is working

Finding a cancer recurrence

PET scans must be interpreted carefully because non-cancerous conditions can look like cancer, and many types of cancer do not appear on PET scans. The types of cancer most likely to show up on PETscans include:

Brain

Breast

Cervical

Colorectal

Esophageal

Head and neck

Liver

Genitourinary

Lung

Lymphoma

Melanoma

Pancreatic

Prostate

Thyroid

TB

Sarcoidosis

Pyrexia of Unknown Origin (PUO)

Although fever is a common clinical condition, it can sometimes be challenging when the patient does not respond appropriately despite standard antibiotics and antipyretics. Under these circumstances, an elaborate search for the underlying pathology is initiated.

To identify Pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) or Fever of unknown origin (FUO), endoscopy, biopsy, high-resolution CT, MRI, and nuclear medicine techniques are used as the initial line of investigation. PET-CT scan thereby helps in early diagnosis and early initiation of treatment as well as in guiding biopsy.

Result

Pictures from a PET scan display bright spots where the radioactive tracer collected. These spots reveal higher levels of chemical activity and details about how your tissues and organs are functioning. A doctor specially trained to interpret scan images (radiologist) will report the findings to your doctor. The radiologist may also compare your PET images with images from other tests you’ve undergone recently, such as computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Or the pictures may be combined to provide more detail about your condition.

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The Grecian Super Speciality Hospital with state of the art equipment that has been touching the chords of the population of North India. The hospital was founded more than a decade back by Dr.Shivpreet Singh Samra and Dr.Shachi Joshi Samra and has since been providing healthcare services to the population of North India.